[footnotes here describe general Camtasia product updates[1][2][3][4]] by Mark Smith @W4CHL
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Referenceable Replays created with Camtasia (Studio) using the Camtasia Smart Player enable key features requested by e-Learners for education and training replays especially for the health care and Information Technology (IT, also known as Information & Communications Techology, ICT) segments. On this wiki page you will find examples of this Referenceable Replay method using Camtasia and a section toward the end of the page which covers the background of e-Learner requirements which are met by this method of creating and managing multimedia replays.
In future updates sections will be added which details how some of the same capabilities may be implemented with other replay technologies. Significant new features came available in 2015 updates to the YouTube editor and the 2016 Camtasia release 9 on Windows and release 3 on the Mac. A section on enhancing video blogs has also been added to the end of this wikispace page.
Here is a screenshot of a Referenceable Reply created with Camtasia Studio v8 followed by a summary of the controls designed responding to e-Learner requirements:
There are several controls in the Camtasia Smart Player v8 & v9-3 output annotated on the screen shot above. To experience a Referenceable Replay, click on the "YouTube-like" play arrow icon shown on Camtasia 9 replay embedded below this paragraph. The presentation will load and controls will be available as annotated in the screenshot above.[5]
Sample Referenceable Replay
Referenceable Replay Controls Overview
The default Camtasia replay settings for an indexed presentation create a replay with an index created during post-production displayed on the left and media player controls at the bottom of the screen. If these controls don't show up, put your cursor (or click) in the middle of the image after clicking the play icon, then you should see a screen similar to the example above. The default controls in Camtasia Smart Player for Flash/HTML5 output which have been used in Referenceable Replays since 2014 include:
Full screen control at lower right which may be toggled back and forth between full screen and embedded in the web page.
Table of Contents (TOC) index displayed on the left. You may click on any TOC image or text to navigate to that slide or screen shot (there may be a delay while the video cache is updated, see next feature: Video replay control.
the Table of Contents control may be toggled on and off. The automatic Table of Contents should disappear within 30 seconds of starting a replay if you move your cursor away from the center of the replay. Manually on/off toggle will restore the TOC using this control at the bottom of the screen which is just to the left of the Full Screen control (see above).
Search function, which allows a text search of words or word fragments that match words in the title of each TOC page. If the presentation is a replay of a PowerPoint presentation recorded with the PowerPoint add-in, then all text throughout the PowerPoint page is added to the searchable index metadata. The search function was disabled when viewing full screen until recent Camtasia v9-3 releases in April 2017.
Video Player Control with a download progress indicator showing how much of the presentation has downloaded by darkening the progress bar next to the white vertical replay cursor. This control is very similar to the default YouTube video control.
Optional: Closed Caption control, the "CC" icon at the bottom of the displayed image. If the presentation is a replay of a PowerPoint presentation recorded with the PowerPoint add-in, then all text from the PowerPoint "notes" section will appear as a scroll-able translucent overlay box when "CC" is enabled (the box is darkened). This may be toggled on and off; the usual default is "off" unless the Referenceable Replays includes Closed Captioned notes.
Key features not shown on the first screen shot above are shown in a second screen shot below, which include:
Optional: URLs within the Replay may be added as clickable hotspots using the Camtasia Callout feature which allows setup of URLs for users to access at the point the reference is made in the replay.[6] The labels in the upper right and upper left of the demonstration video and many header pages at the start and end of Referenceable Replay productions often include clickable hotspots. The blue area on the sample screen below titled "CMS S3E Theme 112944" is a clickable hotspot which links to more detailed information and documentation.
Interactive quizzes which popup and allow for reinforcing key learning objectives may be present in some educational Referenceable Replay videos.
Replay speed control is a control added in 2015 which enables selecting the replay speed. In the image below, 1.75x replay is selected. For many speakers selecting 1.5x - 1.75x replay speed is still quite understandable while minimizing pauses and audio gaps to speed up the replay. If the speaker is not speaking in the e-Learner's native language, the replay may also be slowed down to allow for greater time to understand the audio content.
Referenceable Replay with Camtasia Player Replay Speed Controls
In order to enable the rapid deployment and ease of use of Referenceable Replays from Camtasia, you must do one of the following with the Camtasia files post-production:
Interactive online replay is enabled by moving all files within the folder created by "rendering" on the Camtasia tool to a File Server or Web Folder. The streaming replay created is very similar to a "YouTube" video replay.
Optional Hosting with a Camtasia Relay Server - an option to migrating all files is to push the rendered output using the Camtasia built-in tool to a Relay Server managed by teams for development of support and marketing tutorials. The Relay Server is licensed and requires both a hosting server, which may be on a Virtual Machine, and Windows Server licenses.
Screencast.com - a Cloud service managed by TechSmith.com where Camtasia presentations may be uploaded directly from the Camtasia tools and maintain the Referenceable Replay features of locally hosted or direct media output from Camtasia. Screencast.com accounts start with a free hosting option with limits on space (2GB) and network bandwidth used (2GB/month). More space and network bandwidth may be purchased on other plans.
Hints and tips for producing Camtasia recordings
TechSmith (no relation to the author) created and supports the Camtasia product including a large repository of hints and tips here on their product web site. In the course of producing dozens of multimedia recordings over the past few years, our team has accumulated some internal best practices.
Why did individuals and teams with remote e-Learners start fussing about the way technical information sessions were being made available for replay? The past few years has brought a sea change in the way many staff take informal education. Replaying project presentations by Subject Matter Experts, SMEs, is increasingly important as staff continue to value audio and visually enhanced technical information. Many on our extended teams of Architects, Specialists, Programmers, Engineers, Project Managers, Healthcare Trainers, and Educators viewing training presentation replays have complained that typical training replays lack or are difficult to use because:
an index or way to locate and replay a section of a presentation,
on screen materials may be difficult to read or the screen is very "busy",
the audio in the replay is barely understandable,
the downloaded version of the replay does not have the same enhancements as the online/Cloud Service version,
the replay is too long AND/OR there is too much talking between changes in what is on the screen (unless what is on screen is meant to be studied,
the replay requires a relatively high performance and reliable internet connection,
any required quiz or test is separate from the replay,
the replay does not stream as a YouTube replay would, it requires download and selection of a media player.
All of these professionals seek "Just in Time (JIT)" tidbits that can be referenced when needed. Corporate and marketing or outreach video replays are focused on including interviews, case studies, and/or speeches. Technical reference materials focus on exchange of detailed, release specific, rapidly changing technical information and demonstrations. Multimedia training presentations often enhance traditional "text + still photo" documents, occasionally adding simple zoom-and-pan animation sometimes referred to as the "Ken Burns effect".
As a lead Architect in different roles over the past decade, we have used many different tools and techniques while enhancing our own presentations and those of our team members. Thus the idea of "Referenceable Replays for e-Learning Education & Training" using tools that a small team, often a team of one person, can manage and create true multimedia reference materials. These Referenceable Replays often augment Subject Matter Expert audio + presentation screens by providing indexes to key points, video demonstrations, and animated video which is used to augment traditional documentation.
Most of our recent Technical e-Learning productions have been Referenceable Replays which we define as multimedia presentations which:
Flow of information for Referenceable Replays
combine audio + video and/or still images,
may be embedded in other web tools, often using an iframe widget,
provide a method to locate reference points within the multimedia presentation, and
stream to the viewer in a similar way to YouTube or Media Player presentations, and
allow direct reference to specific points in a replay.
In addition, Referenceable Replays use post-production processes to:
enhance audio to acceptable volume levels and audability,
include an Index, Table of Contents, and/or text search to access reference points for select content within the replay,
increase visual legibility of features described in audio or accompanying text,
strive to have SOMETHING change on screen at least once per minute, including zoom-and-pan (Ken Burns effect),
support portable formats which may be played directly on most Windows, Apple, Android or iOS workstations or packaged for replay on inexpensive devices with a monitor attached.[7]
Given feedback from our e-Learners, we continue to evolve Referenceable Replay creation processes starting with this hints and tips Wiki page for using the Camtasia flash player that is the core component for "Referenceable Replays for the e-Learner". The most common education & training presentation replay uses audio of a person presenting a PowerPoint, or OpenOffice equivalent, with optional on-screen demonstrations that is recorded and posted for replay. These replays are often posted as separate audio and presentation files or as a video of a session screen capture with audio merged with the screen video file. The common flow for creating and managing these replays is shown in the "e-Learning Education & Training Flow..." diagram to the right above.
The concept of Referenceable Replay has driven the design of our production and post-production of several dozen internal corporate training series replays over the past decade. A sample Referenceable Replay is shown at the top of this web page and on this link: Alberto Cairo's NTC 2017 keynote speech. We have assisted in producing these and other presentations where a professional post-production team was not available or affordable. This wiki page and the links are based on Camtasia, but the principles may be applied with other tools outside the scope of this wiki page.
Referenceable Replay Techniques for Video Blogs
Video (we)blogs are booming as many seek to supplement or supplant written (we)blogs. The techniques described here for creating Referenceable Replays of technical materials apply equally to blogs. Often one will take advantage of a technique called Chromakey or color substitution to superimpose materials onto the video and supplement the audio with video of the speaker. A Techsmith help tip on using color substitution or Chromakey may be found here.
Our process of creating Referenceable Replays requires 3 workstation components (Windows 7 or higher workstation or VM or MacOS 10. workstation required):
Screen capture utility: we recommend the Camtasia Recorder in the Camtasia product OR Techsmith Recorder from the Techsmith Relay server product (different packaging of the same screen grab utility). There are Windows and MacOS versions
if the presenter is using PowerPoint and can run a screen capture utility, then we recommend Camtasia or Techsmith Recorder be installed on the presenter's workstation and run from there
Video editor: we highly recommend Camtasia or use of the Techsmith Relay server
Video conversion utility: Handbrake is an excellent freeware choice to convert existing multimedia presentations for editing with Camtasia
By using the Camtasia product we have created both Referenceable Replays and a common process for better integration ("embedding") of small group presentations for inclusion in web pages, embedded in wiki pages, forums, and other web pages supporting "iframe" widgets such as the replay embedded at the top of this web page.
References
The Referenceable Replay at top of this page was adapted from a popular Data Visualization tutorial at an NTEN conference attended by information technology (ICT) staff from non-profit companies across North America. The Referenceable Replay demonstrates most of the capabilities of Camtasia Flash replays embedded in Screencast.com web page; alternatively you may view the presentation and some more information on the author at this direct link to the screencast server:
Handbrake video conversion tool - is an excellent freeware audio conversion tool for creating correctly formatted MP4 input to video editing tools
Audacity - is the standard Open Source tool for audio enhancement and is very well supported freeware. Audacity is available for Windows, Mac OS (OSX) and Linux workstations
TotalRecorder - is a commercial product for Windows which implements of most of Audacity's capabilities at much higher throughput/speed.
Referenceable Replay media; experiences
A summary of Referenceable Replay experiences on different types of media sharing platforms:
Output format
posted to box.com
Posted to web pages using iframe embedding
Posted to shared file service
Posted to Media Library (site with integrated player)
WMV from Arkadin (AT&T Web Replay tool)
+ quick way to share output + allows selective sharing with individuals - audio can be very low, or doesn't play - some sources of WMV will not play in box.com streaming player - player loses resolution, approx 75% - no index, no Table of Contents, no hypertext links - must download to play full resolution
+ quick way to share output + allows selective sharing with individuals or groups - audio can be very low, or doesn't play - no streaming player integration, must download file to replay - no index, no Table of Contents, no hypertext links
+ allows selective sharing with shared file IDs - audio can be very low or doesn't play - requires separate shared file IDs for selective sharing - more cumbersome to share than other two services - no index, no Table of Contents, no hypertext links
+ usually supported by built-in streaming media player + strategic platform for medium audience media sharing - no selective sharing with individuals or groups - audio can be very low, or doesn't play - no index, no Table of Contents, no hypertext links
Single "standard" MP4 file output from running MOV or WMV through Handbrake
+ allows selective sharing with individual IIDs + provides standard file that plays box streaming player - player loses resolution, approx 75% - no index, no Table of Contents, no hypertext links - must download to play full resolution
+ allows selective sharing with individuals or groups - audio can be very low - no streaming player integration, must download file to replay - no index, no Table of Contents, no hypertext links
+ allows selective sharing with shared file service IDs - audio can be very low - no streaming player integration, must download file to replay - no index, no Table of Contents, no hypertext links
+ supported by built-in streaming media player + strategic platform for medium audience media sharing - no selective sharing - audio can be very low - no index, no Table of Contents, no hypertext links
Single MP4 file output after running MOV or WMV through Camtasia Studio (WMV often works well without prior conversion to MP4) OR session recorded using Camtasia Studio Recorder (MP4 only output) OR session recorded with Techsmith Relay Recorder (MP4 only output)
+ allows selective sharing with individual IIDs + this standard MP4 file plays in box streaming player + audio can be equalized (boosted) - player loses resolution, approx 75% - no index, no Table of Contents, no hypertext links - must download to play full resolution
+ allows selective sharing with individuals or groups + audio can be equalized (boosted) - no streaming player integration, must download file to replay - no index, no Table of Contents, no hypertext links
+ allows selective sharing with individuals or groups (with shared file service IDs) + audio can be equalized (boosted) - no streaming player integration, must download file to replay - no index, no Table of Contents, no hypertext links
+ supported by built-in streaming media player + strategic platform for medium audience media sharing
+ audio can be equalized (boosted) - no selective sharing - no index, no Table of Contents, no hypertext links
Camtasia Studio MP4 or WMV input, output HTML5 Smart Player (folder of files) OR session recorded using Camtasia Studio Recorder output HTML5 Smart Player OR session recorded with Techsmith Relay Recorder output with HTML5 Smart Player
+ allows selective sharing with individuals + supported by built-in streaming media player for MP4 file only + partial replay controls + strategic platform for medium audience media sharing
+ audio can be equalized (boosted)
- no selective sharing - no index, no Table of Contents, no hypertext links
+ can host MP4 file only for download
+ audio can be equalized (boosted)
- no streaming player integration, must download file to replay - no selective sharing
- no index, no Table of Contents, no hypertext links
+ allows selective sharing with individuals or groups (with shared file service IDs) + audio can be equalized (boosted) + full Smart Player replay controls + provides streaming support for all Windows & MacOS + supports full Table of Contents, hypertext links, captions, quizzes (Win/MacOS)
+ audio can be equalized (boosted) - does not play directly on Linux workstations (embedded MP4 does play on Linux see cell above)
+ supported by built-in streaming media player for MP4 file only + partial replay controls + strategic platform for medium audience media sharing
+ audio can be equalized (boosted) - no selective sharing - no index, no Table of Contents, no hypertext links
If you have any comments or feedback, please append them here or send a tweet with hashtag #ReferenceableReplays to @W4CHL.
^Note 1: the Smart Player Flash controls have changed in 2015 Camtasia Studio v8 releases which fixed some annoying "features" and added a variable speed replay. Updates to these pages reflect these and other Camtasia enhancements through June 2016. If you have questions or comments, please append below or send to Mark Smith at @W4CHL.
^Note2: the Camtasia Smart Player HTML5/Flash controls are not compatible with the default browsers available in native Linux distributions including RedHat Enterprise Linux. The replay is supported by launching a Windows VM and using Internet Explorer or Firefox. The MP4 file created as part of Camtasia post-production is compatible with supported Linux Movie Player but does not include the interactive controls noted below. Linux users who wish to play this MP4 file must install the Fluendo player and codecs, see this link, in order to view the MP4 format replays.
^Note3 (4Q2016): Camtasia v9-3 has been updated for MacOS and Windows. The product is now known simply as "Camtasia", as the developers have dropped "Studio" from the product name. The function is still comparable and Referenceable Replay output has the same look-and-feel.
^Note 4: as of Camtasia release 9-3, the Camtasia Smart Player is fully supported on workstations, laptops, and tablets running Windows, MacOS (OSX), and Chrome browser enabled devices. The Camtasia player does not run on browsers other than Chrome or Chromium on Android or Linux so do not have all the features highlighted here.
^Note 5: as of Camtasia release 9-3,the Camtasia Smart Player is fully supported on workstations, laptops, and tablets running Windows, MacOS (OSX), and Chrome browser enabled devices. The Camtasia player does not run on browsers other than Chrome or Chromium on Android or Linux so do not have all the features highlighted here.
^Note 6: that after version 8.0.4 in late 2013, performance issues rendering with hotspots improved dramatically!
^ Note 7: Many devices can replay Camtasia output formats. One of the least expensive are Raspberry Pi single board computers (SBC) which are popular with Internet of Things solution solution developers. Details on building Raspberry Pi SBC servers will be posted on a separate wiki page.
Table of Contents
Camtasia (Studio) Referenceable Replay Guide
[footnotes here describe general Camtasia product updates[1] [2] [3] [4] ]by Mark Smith @W4CHL
NOTE: Due to the shutdown of Wikispaces.com announced early Feb 2018, access to this Wikispace will end July 2018. We are moving all content from this and hundreds of wikispaces pages to pbworks.com. The content on this page is now evolving at http://w4chl.pbworks.com/RRs
Our apologies for the migration of this content as we had just begun migration here in early 2018.
Referenceable Replays created with Camtasia (Studio) using the Camtasia Smart Player enable key features requested by e-Learners for education and training replays especially for the health care and Information Technology (IT, also known as Information & Communications Techology, ICT) segments. On this wiki page you will find examples of this Referenceable Replay method using Camtasia and a section toward the end of the page which covers the background of e-Learner requirements which are met by this method of creating and managing multimedia replays.
In future updates sections will be added which details how some of the same capabilities may be implemented with other replay technologies. Significant new features came available in 2015 updates to the YouTube editor and the 2016 Camtasia release 9 on Windows and release 3 on the Mac. A section on enhancing video blogs has also been added to the end of this wikispace page.
Here is a screenshot of a Referenceable Reply created with Camtasia Studio v8 followed by a summary of the controls designed responding to e-Learner requirements:
There are several controls in the Camtasia Smart Player v8 & v9-3 output annotated on the screen shot above. To experience a Referenceable Replay, click on the "YouTube-like" play arrow icon shown on Camtasia 9 replay embedded below this paragraph. The presentation will load and controls will be available as annotated in the screenshot above.[5]
Sample Referenceable Replay
Referenceable Replay Controls Overview
The default Camtasia replay settings for an indexed presentation create a replay with an index created during post-production displayed on the left and media player controls at the bottom of the screen. If these controls don't show up, put your cursor (or click) in the middle of the image after clicking the play icon, then you should see a screen similar to the example above. The default controls in Camtasia Smart Player for Flash/HTML5 output which have been used in Referenceable Replays since 2014 include:
Key features not shown on the first screen shot above are shown in a second screen shot below, which include:
In order to enable the rapid deployment and ease of use of Referenceable Replays from Camtasia, you must do one of the following with the Camtasia files post-production:
Hints and tips for producing Camtasia recordings
TechSmith (no relation to the author) created and supports the Camtasia product including a large repository of hints and tips here on their product web site. In the course of producing dozens of multimedia recordings over the past few years, our team has accumulated some internal best practices.Table of Contents
Background to Referenceable Replays
Why did individuals and teams with remote e-Learners start fussing about the way technical information sessions were being made available for replay? The past few years has brought a sea change in the way many staff take informal education. Replaying project presentations by Subject Matter Experts, SMEs, is increasingly important as staff continue to value audio and visually enhanced technical information. Many on our extended teams of Architects, Specialists, Programmers, Engineers, Project Managers, Healthcare Trainers, and Educators viewing training presentation replays have complained that typical training replays lack or are difficult to use because:- an index or way to locate and replay a section of a presentation,
- on screen materials may be difficult to read or the screen is very "busy",
- the audio in the replay is barely understandable,
- the downloaded version of the replay does not have the same enhancements as the online/Cloud Service version,
- the replay is too long AND/OR there is too much talking between changes in what is on the screen (unless what is on screen is meant to be studied,
- the replay requires a relatively high performance and reliable internet connection,
- any required quiz or test is separate from the replay,
- the replay does not stream as a YouTube replay would, it requires download and selection of a media player.
All of these professionals seek "Just in Time (JIT)" tidbits that can be referenced when needed. Corporate and marketing or outreach video replays are focused on including interviews, case studies, and/or speeches. Technical reference materials focus on exchange of detailed, release specific, rapidly changing technical information and demonstrations. Multimedia training presentations often enhance traditional "text + still photo" documents, occasionally adding simple zoom-and-pan animation sometimes referred to as the "Ken Burns effect".As a lead Architect in different roles over the past decade, we have used many different tools and techniques while enhancing our own presentations and those of our team members. Thus the idea of "Referenceable Replays for e-Learning Education & Training" using tools that a small team, often a team of one person, can manage and create true multimedia reference materials. These Referenceable Replays often augment Subject Matter Expert audio + presentation screens by providing indexes to key points, video demonstrations, and animated video which is used to augment traditional documentation.
Most of our recent Technical e-Learning productions have been Referenceable Replays which we define as multimedia presentations which:
- combine audio + video and/or still images,
- may be embedded in other web tools, often using an iframe widget,
- provide a method to locate reference points within the multimedia presentation, and
- stream to the viewer in a similar way to YouTube or Media Player presentations, and
- allow direct reference to specific points in a replay.
In addition, Referenceable Replays use post-production processes to:Given feedback from our e-Learners, we continue to evolve Referenceable Replay creation processes starting with this hints and tips Wiki page for using the Camtasia flash player that is the core component for "Referenceable Replays for the e-Learner". The most common education & training presentation replay uses audio of a person presenting a PowerPoint, or OpenOffice equivalent, with optional on-screen demonstrations that is recorded and posted for replay. These replays are often posted as separate audio and presentation files or as a video of a session screen capture with audio merged with the screen video file. The common flow for creating and managing these replays is shown in the "e-Learning Education & Training Flow..." diagram to the right above.
The concept of Referenceable Replay has driven the design of our production and post-production of several dozen internal corporate training series replays over the past decade. A sample Referenceable Replay is shown at the top of this web page and on this link: Alberto Cairo's NTC 2017 keynote speech. We have assisted in producing these and other presentations where a professional post-production team was not available or affordable. This wiki page and the links are based on Camtasia, but the principles may be applied with other tools outside the scope of this wiki page.
Referenceable Replay Techniques for Video Blogs
Video (we)blogs are booming as many seek to supplement or supplant written (we)blogs. The techniques described here for creating Referenceable Replays of technical materials apply equally to blogs. Often one will take advantage of a technique called Chromakey or color substitution to superimpose materials onto the video and supplement the audio with video of the speaker. A Techsmith help tip on using color substitution or Chromakey may be found here.
Table of Contents
Components for Referenceable Replay Production
Our process of creating Referenceable Replays requires 3 workstation components (Windows 7 or higher workstation or VM or MacOS 10. workstation required):By using the Camtasia product we have created both Referenceable Replays and a common process for better integration ("embedding") of small group presentations for inclusion in web pages, embedded in wiki pages, forums, and other web pages supporting "iframe" widgets such as the replay embedded at the top of this web page.
References
The Referenceable Replay at top of this page was adapted from a popular Data Visualization tutorial at an NTEN conference attended by information technology (ICT) staff from non-profit companies across North America. The Referenceable Replay demonstrates most of the capabilities of Camtasia Flash replays embedded in Screencast.com web page; alternatively you may view the presentation and some more information on the author at this direct link to the screencast server:TechSmith Product Pages
Essential Core Video & Audio Tools
Referenceable Replay media; experiences
A summary of Referenceable Replay experiences on different types of media sharing platforms:
+ allows selective sharing with individuals
- audio can be very low, or doesn't play
- some sources of WMV will not play in box.com streaming player
- player loses resolution, approx 75%
- no index, no Table of Contents, no hypertext links
- must download to play full resolution
+ allows selective sharing with individuals or groups
- audio can be very low, or doesn't play
- no streaming player integration, must download file to replay
- no index, no Table of Contents, no hypertext links
- audio can be very low or doesn't play
- requires separate shared file IDs for selective sharing
- more cumbersome to share than other two services
- no index, no Table of Contents, no hypertext links
+ strategic platform for medium audience media sharing
- no selective sharing with individuals or groups
- audio can be very low, or doesn't play
- no index, no Table of Contents, no hypertext links
+ provides standard file that plays box streaming player
- player loses resolution, approx 75%
- no index, no Table of Contents, no hypertext links
- must download to play full resolution
- audio can be very low
- no streaming player integration, must download file to replay
- no index, no Table of Contents, no hypertext links
- audio can be very low
- no streaming player integration, must download file to replay
- no index, no Table of Contents, no hypertext links
+ strategic platform for medium audience media sharing
- no selective sharing
- audio can be very low
- no index, no Table of Contents, no hypertext links
(WMV often works well without prior conversion to MP4)
OR session recorded using Camtasia Studio Recorder (MP4 only output)
OR session recorded with Techsmith Relay Recorder (MP4 only output)
+ this standard MP4 file plays in box streaming player
+ audio can be equalized (boosted)
- player loses resolution, approx 75%
- no index, no Table of Contents, no hypertext links
- must download to play full resolution
+ audio can be equalized (boosted)
- no streaming player integration, must download file to replay
- no index, no Table of Contents, no hypertext links
+ audio can be equalized (boosted)
- no streaming player integration, must download file to replay
- no index, no Table of Contents, no hypertext links
+ strategic platform for medium audience media sharing
+ audio can be equalized (boosted)
- no selective sharing
- no index, no Table of Contents, no hypertext links
OR session recorded using Camtasia Studio Recorder output HTML5 Smart Player
OR session recorded with Techsmith Relay Recorder output with HTML5 Smart Player
+ supported by built-in streaming media player for MP4 file only
+ partial replay controls
+ strategic platform for medium audience media sharing
+ audio can be equalized (boosted)
- no selective sharing
- no index, no Table of Contents, no hypertext links
+ audio can be equalized (boosted)
- no streaming player integration, must download file to replay
- no selective sharing
- no index, no Table of Contents, no hypertext links
+ audio can be equalized (boosted)
+ full Smart Player replay controls
+ provides streaming support for all Windows & MacOS
+ supports full Table of Contents, hypertext links, captions, quizzes (Win/MacOS)
+ audio can be equalized (boosted)
- does not play directly on Linux workstations (embedded MP4 does play on Linux see cell above)
+ partial replay controls
+ strategic platform for medium audience media sharing
+ audio can be equalized (boosted)
- no selective sharing
- no index, no Table of Contents, no hypertext links